paludal

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Nearly a million cubic yards of sediment had made the five-mile journey, resulting in the creation—or, to be more accurate, the re-creation—of a hundred and eighty-six paludal acres.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019

A characteristic paludal deposit is a peat bog, a deposit rich in organic matter that can be converted into coal when lithified.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Imperfect reaction from a chill, long persistent hyperpyrexia, diarrhoea or vomiting, or chronic paludal cachexia, or, it may be, some epidemic influence, may produce it.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Such aliases as hemorrhagic malarial fever, climatic fever, rice fever, h�matemesic paludal fever, and many more of the same character, should receive the severest examination before approval and adoption.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Unfortunately the investigations undertaken for this end have for a long time been fruitless, for the preconceived paludal theory has led investigators to occupy themselves exclusively with the inferior organisms inhabiting marshes.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various